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List of Fox Film films

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ19875249 ↗
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This is a list of feature films produced by the Fox Film Corporation, including those 11 films produced by the Box Office Attractions Company, its corporate predecessor. Some of the later films in this list were produced by Fox Film, but were distributed by 20th Century Fox after their 1935 merger with Twentieth Century Pictures. Unfortunately a devastating 1937 vault fire in New Jersey destroyed 75% of the studios 1914-1929 film catalogue leaving only a few titles known to survive in some form. The # syndicates a film considered to be lost.

Key

Note: None of the Fox Films from 1919 are known to exist in full.

1910s

1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

1919

1920s

1920

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926

1927

1928

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1930s

1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

Notes

Bibliography

Solomon, Aubrey (2011). The Fox Film Corporation, 1915–1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-6286-5.

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